The
Gog Farm Shop (Cambridge) -
Cambridge RoyalProduce from the Gog Farm shop as we have found is always a decent quality and a good price. The butchery in particular retails excellent cuts and ranges of meat. Their sausages have always scored highly with us. Quality outdoor reared pork sourced from high-welfare farms and mixed and filled in to all natural casings. Hand filled and hand tied. Oh yes bring it on...
We had a recent run up to Granchester, near Cambridge, for a riverside dog walk. Granchester, you know, where they filmed the Robson Green TV drama series. Yes it's a real place. The meadows and riverside is a lovely walk. After a coffee and cake stop back at the very nice Orchard Tea Rooms there (3 hours free parking if you buy something), we headed back to home avoiding the M11 by going across country, scenic route and all that, and found ourselves "accidentally" passing the Gog Farm Shop! Oh dear...how did that happen?
The Farm Shop has some history as a long established family business operating a Shop and Butchery, a Deli and a Cafe. Runners up in the Butchers Shop of the Year and Observer Best Independent Food Retailer competition too. Winner of Great Taste Awards, winner of The Great British Food Awards and The Farm Shop & Deli Awards and The Observer Food Monthly Awards. In fact The Gog has even featured on the BBC’s "MasterChef", "Taste of Britain", "The Great British Menu" and even "The Apprentice".
We last called in to the farm shop during 2022 an bought some traditional porks which incidentally went down very nicely. The butcher tells us on this visit that the difference between the traditional pork and these Cambride Royals is some white and cayenne pepper. Certainly sounded good to us, so in the bag with a pack and some chipolatas as the offer was 2 packs for £10. Good value I'd say.
Cooked up the skins were very good, nicely browned with no splits or ruptures, but a slight additional amount of oil was noticed in the pan though. Taste-wise far superior to the traditionals that we said previously could have done with a touch more seasoning. You get the pepper in these but it's not cayenne overpowering all. Just enough to give a decent flavour.
Texture-wise though they were a little disappointing unfortunately. With such an open texture the sausage meat was very soft to bite and chew.
We ate them as part of a sausage, mash and thick onion gravy, and even with the above comments, they ate quite well. No complaints.
Would we buy again, yes we would.
The Gog Farm Shop
(Cambridge) - Cambridge
Royal
(Aug
2024)
Here's the
sample details:
130x28mm before cooking, 125x28mm
after.
76g before cooking, 65g after.
That's a shrinkage of 8% & weight
loss of approx 14%.
6 sausages in a 450g pack (approx) £5.50 (£12.20/kg
approx)
The Gog Farm Shop
Heath Farm,
Shelford Bottom
Cambridge CB22 3AD
01223 248352
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